Agency) (Amendment) Order, 2020

L.N. 440 of 2020

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACT

(CAP. 595)

National Development and Social Fund (Establishment as an

Agency) (Amendment) Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 26 of the

Public Administration Act the Prime Minister has made the following

The title of this order is the National Development and Citation.

Social Fund (Establishment as an Agency) (Amendment) Order, 2020

and this order shall be read and construed as one with the National S.L. 595. 12.

Development and Social Fund (Establishment as an Agency) Order,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal order".

Article 2 of the principal order shall be amended as Amends article

2 of the

principal order.

(a) in the definition "Board of Governors", the words

"the founding regulation" shall be substituted by the words "by

article 6";

(b) the definition "Minister" shall be substituted by the

following new definition

" "Minister" means the Minister responsible for

citizenship;

(c) the definition

"Permanent Secretary" shall be

substituted by the following new definition

" "Permanent Secretary" means the Permanent

Secretary in the Ministry responsible for citizenship;"; and

(d) in the definition "programme", immediately after the

words "Malta Regulations" there shall be added the words "and

the successful applicants under the Granting of Citizenship for L.N.

2020. Exceptional Services Regulations.".

In article 3 of the principal order, the words "and the Amends article

3 of the

founding regulation" shall be deleted.

principal order.

In article 4 of the principal order, the words "In the carrying Amends article

out of its functions and duties, the Agency shall receive, from the 4 principal

Identity Malta Agency, such percentage of the amounts of money

payable to the Fund from the revenue received from the programme

and use and administer those amounts for the purposes stipulated in the

founding regulation, including, but without prejudice to the generality

of the foregoing:" shall be substituted by the words "In the carrying

out of its functions and duties, the Agency shall receive, from the

Identity Malta Agency, from the Maltese Individual Investor

Programme Agency and from the Community Malta Agency, such

percentage of the amounts of money payable to the Fund from the

revenue received from the programme and use and administer those

amounts in the public interest inter alia for the advancement of

education, research, innovation, social purposes, justice and the rule of

law, employment initiatives, the environment and public health,

including, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing:".

Article 6 of the principal order shall be amended as

follows

(a) in sub-article (1) thereof, the words "in the founding

regulation" shall be substituted by the words "in sub-article (4)";

and

(b) immediately after sub-article (3) there shall be added

the following new sub-article

"(4) Notwithstanding any other law, the Fund shall

be administered by the Board of Governors consisting of

seven (7) members of whom one shall be the Chairman and

another shall be the Deputy Chairman who shall be

appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers

Provided that two (2) members of the Board of

Governors shall be nominated by the Minister responsible

for citizenship.".

In sub-article (1) of the principal order, the words "the

founding regulation and to" shall be deleted.

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